The Immigration Debate

Thank you for your comments and opinions in our class debate today. I really appreciated your willingness to examine this very challenging topic from different perspectives. Special kudos on this point to Shaw-Well done!  Let's continue our discussion on the blog. Feel free to comment more on today's topic:

How can we protect our borders from illegal immigrants but still remain true to the freedoms and principles that define what it means to be 'An American'?

< Family Seal Activity Be 'VERY' careful and ensure that you follow the WILF for this assignment.

Your seal 'must' include the following:

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  clear balance of between 4-8 appropriate SYMBOLS organized in a symmetrical way
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  a title
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  a  motto
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  whole seal inside a shape
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  each symbol clearly named AND explained
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  NEATLY presented.
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  No writing inside seal apart from the motto

I strongly suggest that you do avery rough draft copy for Friday.

Don't forget to study for your spelling test on Friday. Remember study 'smart' not hard!

Homework Sheet - Week 3

Watch these videos again to review what we did in class today on 'Speed Reading'. I have also added a couple of extra ones that are on the same topic. Enjoy teaching somebody else our new strategies!










Don't forget that your 'A Boy's Story H/W' is due in by the end of study Hall tomorrow

Reading Strategies Assessment (Fri Sept 10th)

For 'Friday's Reading Strategies Assessment' use these activties below to practice. You do not have to do all the exercises. You should attempt at least one from each section over the next week. The test is OPEN BOOK and NOTE NOTES. This means that ANYTHING you have created to study from, you can use during the test itself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgaSmJKR9HM
Context Clues Practicehttp://www.english-zone.com/vocab/vic01.html
(add at least 5 of the new vocab words to your Daybook)

Parts of Speech Practice

http://wps.ablongman.com/long_licklider_vocabulary_1/0,1682,11839-,00.html
Go to 'word clues' and do exercise 1+2

Practice with Appositives
http://palc.sd40.bc.ca/palc/Quiz/grammar/appositive21.htm  (ignore first question)
http://www.quia.com/pop/8755.html?AP_rand=1733434232
http://www.quia.com/cb/28810.html

Clarification and Question
Write three clarifcations and three questions about this picture

Other
Make sure you are comfortable writing a prediction paragraph based on a piece of text

A Boy's Story - Tuesday Sept 7th 2010

Phrase of the Week
He who cuts his own wood warms himself twice

Word of the Week
Palpable





Use this link to finish your Reading Strategies class assignment that we began in class on Tue. Sept. 7th

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/seymour/index.htm

Worksheet is here http://www.box.net/shared/pabt4c6x9t

Apply your reading skills effectively to score all the points

Questioning Text -v- Clarifying Text

What is the difference between the two reading skills we looked at today?

Now watch this video below and write 3 clarifications and 3 questions about what you see.


Read this poem and write 3 clarifications and 3 questions about it.



"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"


I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.


The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed---and gazed---but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie


In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.


William Wordsworth

Enjoy Reading Lindsey's WhereI'm From Poem
http://www.box.net/shared/uz3d9p5jlv